Pope Francis is dying, according to a secretary of one of the influential Vatican Cardinals, reported Newsmax on Wednesday.
Francis, who has been a controversial figure in the Church for his woke policies such as banning the Latin Mass and supporting vaccination, gay marriage and submission to the Chinese Communist Party, is not expected to live to the end of 2022.
Concerns at the Vatican are so serious, that it has gone into ‘pre-conclave mode’ preparing for the ritual vote among the cardinals that will select the next pontiff, even though Francis apparently had tried to slow this process by preventing the cardinals from meeting.
The current pope has not been in good health for a while. Last year, he spent days in hospital recovering from surgery to his intestine for diverticulitis, but there were rumors that it may have in fact been related to cancer. He is also missing a part of one lung from an earlier procedure.